Today’s Discovery – Mica Levi and Oliver Coates, “Remain Calm”

 

 

“Remain Calm” is steeped in classical music, yet keen enough to blend contemporary styles—like grime, techno and drone.

via Album of the Day: Mica Levi and Oliver Coates, “Remain Calm” — Bandcamp Daily

Album of the Day: Mica Levi and Oliver Coates, “Remain Calm”

Like the weather,it’s changeable with a multitude of layers of light and shade.

An Album a Day pt2

For the past couple of years I’m Gary (@noyokono) on twitter has a challenge for February – MWE
“Music Writer Exercise: Each day in February, listen to 1 full album you’ve never heard, from start to finish. Write one tweet about it. #MWE
Ok, I’m no writer but I did this last year and I’ attempting it again and here are next 6 albums –

MWE#7 –  Fire-Toolz / Even the Files won’t touch you –

A Halloween carnival ride of twisted electronic alt reality


MWE#8 – Treeborhood – Boreal Network

Soundtrack to an 80’s film I wished I’d seen…


MWE#9 – The bitter tears of Petra von Kant/ Reiner Werner Fassbinder . OST – Nalyssa Green

A meld of two sonic worlds, ancient and modern


MWE#10 – Dreamscapes by Barton McLean

Sound pictures that fill the senses from an electronic music pioneer


MWE#11 – Pink Waves – Female Focussed Sounds – Urban Arts Berlin

A showcase of intriguing contrasts


MWE#12 – Ore – darwinsbitch (Marielle V Jakobsons)

A cosmic and terrestrial soundscape of foreboding

 

 

Review Reblog – Marielle V Jakobsons – Star Core

This week Feminatronic playlist#95 is titled Quiet Times, music to just sit back, shut your eyes and really listen to and this album fits right into that category, with a heady mix of psyche ambience.

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Artist: Marielle V Jakobsons
Title: Star Core
keywords: ambient classical cosmic experimental new age synthesizer Oakland

This pretty enlightening kind-of-an-album by multi-instrumentalist Marielle V Jakobsons starts with a nice spacious melodic amount of White Sparks. For some reason it gives me a winter-time feeling; snowflakes, socks hanging in the window, little lights and driving home for a futuristic Christmas. The melodies are nicely waved into each other creating a slow web of kind psychedelics that brings out a voice from deep within, something that seems to function as the kind of star to follow in order to find directions to a little hostel in the wintering white sparkling landscape.

Then the music changes into a warmer zone, some place in which psychedelics are teaming up with Persian hallucinations, harems, flying carpenters, bottles of smoke and graceful strings that belly dance their hour glass shapes on a floor full of comfortable…

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Today’s Discovery – Karine Dumont

Discovered via Many Many Women

Ice Data by Karine Dumont

Kalalunatic / Karine Dumont is a musician and composer, working mostly on electroacoustic and improvised music.
She has worked for many years with theatre companies producing original scores as well as creating her own personal compositions. She also plays the soprano saxophone, using it as a tone generator or noise maker.

Friday Focus – Many Many Women

The site Many Many Women  regularly posts artists it is listening to, which I highly recommend. Just reblogging a couple here –

via Now Listening: Blectum from Blechdom — Many Many Women

Friday Focus – Many, Many Women

https://manymanywomen.com/
Many Many Women – https://manymanywomen.com/

 

Many Many Women is an Index of over a thousand artists, composers, improvisors and sonic artists who identify as women  –

The main focus of this index is on women making various kinds of experimental/avant garde music. Some of these artists may also work within more mainstream forms, but they are included here because of their other work that is more challenging.

Genres covered include Classical, Electroacoustic, Electronic, Improvised / Jazz, Intermedia, Noise / Other and Songmakers.

 

 

 

Review Reblog – Marlo Eggplant: Callosity

News / Event

Announcing funding of £42,600 awarded by The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for a programme of activities and events to celebrate the late Delia Derbyshire’s 80th anniversary year.

via Announcing: Delia Derbyshire 80th birthday electronic music heritage project — Delia Derbyshire Day

Today’s Discovery – Priscilla McLean

Electronic Music Pioneer

Conversation with Priscilla McLean

NewMusicBox 10/5/2006

Celebrating the eclecticism of Electronic Artists who identify as female